lastflowers
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I may commit seppuku if another Texans game ends like sunday.
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NFL 2013 Week 7 |OT| - The Green Green Grass of Home
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Hasphat'sAnts
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Plenty of people root for the team in spite of their owner, or else there wouldn't be any Knicks fans
The fans know who made that franchise relevant, and he sure as hell wasn't sitting in the owner's box on game days.
TheContact
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I love the 46 yard punt that wasn't enough to cross the first down marker lol
I don't like your avatar.
I hope it won't, and I won't think they will. Assuming we make it of course.
Thanks bro. Thanks to Greatest Jedi too, saw the post.
Yeah, I was about to throw out an avatar bet, but I think there is only you and Narag. Irsay got me fired up, so I was going to put good old O on the line. If he's up for it I'll take it I guess.
As far as Irsay, the one thing I can respect is that he speaks his mind. Doesn't pull any punches. It just irks me, because it would be like Pat Bowlen shitting on Elway for losing 3 SBs, and only winning 2 out of 5. Appreciate that you got to the pinnacle. Whatever though, Indy fans get it even if Irsay doesn't.
Hasphat'sAnts
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The Schmelzer in the background just really ties it all together.
Where are you from anyway? Don't think I've seen you in the NFL threads before this season?
Hasphat'sAnts
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Starphoenix
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J.J. Watt will probably be right behind you.
TheLegendary
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Agreed.
Tragicomedy
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AJ Hawk to the rescue! (aided by Mike Neal and Datone Jones)
Hopefully Hayward back in the fold soon..been saying that for weeks though.
MetalFearSolid
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So apparently AP may have another secret child?
http://www.tmz.com/2013/10/15/adrian-peterson-secret-child/
http://www.tmz.com/2013/10/15/adrian-peterson-secret-child/
Starphoenix
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Lattimore graded out better than anyone. Guy is going to be a stud.
I don't understand why they are calling it a "secret child." Has he done anything to actively hide the fact that she exists? What a bullshit story. Guy loses a kid and the media shits all over itself to pile dirt on him. Guy like Warren Sapp and Brian Urlacher refuse to pay child support for years and years and the media buries the story. Garbage.
Hey..fucker.. stop changing names like girls change tampons during the week!
Alligatorjandro
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Did you know they have Taco Bells, Pizza Huts and KFCs all in one store here?
Facts dont bring in the click rate
Those are the best.
Elfforkusu
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I for one am shocked and appalled at the newfound knowledge that professional athletes have sex out of wedlock!
Forget concussions, this outrage is the real NFL scandal of the century! Somebody get a quote from Tim Tebow!
TheLegendary
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Sorry, you're stuck with your Schlachtschüssel and Steckrübeneintopf
Enjoy!
darkside31337
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According to Matthew Futterman and Shalini Ramachandran of the Wall Street Journal, the NFL is considering adding more Thursday night games to its current slate of 13 televised by NFL Network.
Per the report, the league could stage some Thursday night doubleheaders, with games being televised on networks other than the league-owned broadcast operation.
The NFL reportedly is disappointed that the present approach, which expanded last year to cover most Thursdays, hasnt generated more interest. In addition to additional Thursday night games, some of the games currently televised by NFL Network could be sold to other networks.
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/10/15/report-league-considers-adding-more-thursday-games/
Holy fuck. Clearly the reason nobody cares about Thursday Night Football is because there isn't enough of it...
Per the report, the league could stage some Thursday night doubleheaders, with games being televised on networks other than the league-owned broadcast operation.
The NFL reportedly is disappointed that the present approach, which expanded last year to cover most Thursdays, hasnt generated more interest. In addition to additional Thursday night games, some of the games currently televised by NFL Network could be sold to other networks.
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/10/15/report-league-considers-adding-more-thursday-games/
Holy fuck. Clearly the reason nobody cares about Thursday Night Football is because there isn't enough of it...
TheLegendary
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Way to ruin a good thing, NFL. Ugh. Throwing more games at it is certainly the best solution
Ninja Scooter
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Tell the NCAA to fuck off already and move the Thursday games to Saturday. Everyone wins, except that shitty NCAA.
Obvious fix is to put it to a major network. NBC, CBS, Fox. Nfl network doesn't have the same clout.
The_Darkest_Red
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Dolphins do not need a RB. Miller needs more carries and better run blocking.
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
None of these networks would want this garbage. Would pull in way worse ratings than regular programming. ESPN would be like the only major network to touch this.
rangersfan414
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I like it. DH every Thursday still keeps it fair for every team and the more games I can watch, the better.
That's what the article hinted at. Make it a bidding war so they're getting maximum value from terrible games.
Starphoenix
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So give more teams 3 day turnarounds to prepare for a game on Thursday? Goodell says he cares about player safety, but a lot of his proposals seem to stand in contrast to what he says. No way is this helpful to players, nor is it that advantageous to consumers, who are basically receiving bottom of the barrel games for the sake of "more football".
We'll still wind up with a crappy game, because the major networks will not lose one of their marque games, and teams will still have less preparation because of the Sunday turnaround.
Ninja Scooter
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Thursday games suck. Why would you want more?
Monday Night Football would be middle of the pack of the top 10 during primetime for major networks. Assuming that a major network did pick it up, and the matchups were good, it wouldn't do terrible. Plus you have the added advantage of having that audience locked in for that time period versus 0.5/1 hour blocks, where they might jump from one show to the next and maybe to a different network.
Yeah, seems that way.
I was trying to get at the point were if the Thursday night matchup was dished off to a major network as a opposed to multiple games. Could have one Thursday night game and increase it's viewership by taking it away from cable. Would probably roughly double it's rating, assuming it matches the Monday Night viewership.
rangersfan414
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I'd rather watch a bad Thursday game than have it Sunday @ 1pm when everybody else plays.
Oh I didn't mean matchups, I meant quality of play onfield.
Thursdays sucks b/c of the short week. Add another bye week and only let teams play game with some minimum number of days off. It's not so much about safety as it is bad product. Doing two games increases the odds that one is worth watching, and lets them sell another instance of Red Zone as well
edit: TD rate goes down, INT rate goes up, QBR and completion percentage go down. Safety is what people pretend to care about. The actual reason no one likes it is b/c it is shitty to watch
http://espn.go.com/blog/nflnation/post/_/id/92941/inside-slant-thursday-night-tackling?src=mobile
edit: TD rate goes down, INT rate goes up, QBR and completion percentage go down. Safety is what people pretend to care about. The actual reason no one likes it is b/c it is shitty to watch
http://espn.go.com/blog/nflnation/post/_/id/92941/inside-slant-thursday-night-tackling?src=mobile
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